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Saturday, 8 June 2013

What Do You Hear?

Today's blog is a bit of an experiment.
Don't worry I haven't gone all Avant-garde on you all......
I have only been thinking that the sense of hearing, is perhaps the one I take the most for granted.
After a some what backbreaking watering of "bosoms" and an equally tiring " wound check" of Bingley's arse, I sat down to record a brief snap shot of today's Trelawnyd sound bite.

Now if you want to join in.....turn up your volume, play the video but DON'T WATCH IT....
It's piss boring anyhow, only having George rolling about in the grass to watch.... But I am interested in what you can hear!
There's the low drone from the traffic of the A55, the main road into North Wales....and that is four miles inland!....wild bird song, the murmur and chatter from a passing hen, Bingley's gobble, mutterings from the geese, a distant motorbike,crows in the distance...........perhaps a faraway plane on its decent into Manchester........
How many times do we look..... But not listen?
Just a thought....

John: I've been conducting a census of birds breeding in our forest for the last 20 years. The censuses have to be conducted within 3 hours of sunrise, so I'm in the woods very early listening for birdsong. Though my census area is located at least two miles from a very heavily traveled toll freeway, the traffic noise often drowns out the birdsong during rush hour.

Sounds like Bingley and the dogs serve in tandem as an alarm committee. I love the muttering of the hen; I miss that sound. Your Bosoms are quite peaceful, to me. We get a good bit of road noise, plus a lot of planes taking off from the nearby airport. I think it would be great if we all shared the sounds of our backyards. I only wish mine had fewer engines and more hen muttering.

Amongst all the lovely sounds, the Trelawnyd Grand Prix appeared to be taking place nearby. Snippet went crazy when your dogs started barking, shooting down the garden and then running up and down the hedge line snorting like a little hairy black pig.

It was having such a serene soporific effect on me - and then the dog barked, rudely breaking the spell! You didn't put one of those subliminal messages on it, did you? 'Cos I suddenly have an urgent want to come to Wales - a country (or should that be 'principality' ?) I've not visited heretofore. Very strange (the feeling, I mean, not Wales).

I'm not entirely sure of everything I heard, but here is what I think I heard. Birds (wild and domestic), motorcycle, plants rustling against one another, a breeze hitting the mic, dog barking and Bingley answering, insects of the flying variety and...

I am quite deaf John and wear a hearing aid so am even more sensitive to lovely sounds than most. The cuckoo has been heard twice in our village this year for the first time in a few years - I do so wish he would pop down our end of the village. Bird calls are at their height aren't they? Good of you to remind us to listen.

I did enjoy that, even though I mostly heard the wind (or your breath?) in the mic and the constant ringing in my own ears. I was able to hear hens or ducks muttering a couple of times, a low engine rumble, but best of all - turkey gobbles. I think. And then, of course, your canine alarms - but gentle barks, no snarls or growls.

When I teach people to meditate, it is also important to hear, recognise and then let drift away every sound you can hear (in order to go deeper into meditation) but the point is when you really do listen to what is around, the amount of 'noise,' the number of sounds is incredible.Great post

Traffic noise drives me bonkers. I walk the dogs in a place where you can't here it. In Penyffordd they are building 500 homes within 200yds of two trunk roads. Noise does not seem to bother the insensitive. Bikers hammer along the bypass with illegal exhausts doing 120mph We also have very slight noise from the cement works. Locals complain about that. Funny how they can discern the factory noise over the trunk road traffic which is a lot louder.You may wish to know John that the EU are on the noise case.............The A55 as within 2 miles over Penyffordd you cannot however hear it. Not so with regards our bypass.

You live in an absolutely beautiful part of the world! I have always lived in the country and cannot imagine how I would cope in a city...I love days like the one you showed when it is sunny and quiet and you can enjoy all of those"background" sounds...very comforting!

I grew up in the country to the sound of 'Moo-ing" on one side of us and the heavy traffic of the national highway on the other. I always preferred the Moos.

Can you tell us why, at the point where the barking cut in, the two brown dogs disappeared to the left and the one SMALL black dog seemed to be holding off the imminent threat by himself? haha perhaps I have misinterpreted :)

I love all the little chirpy birds you have in the UK. The birdsong is always lovely. Our birds are on the whole much louder and in some cases not exactly pretty (kookaburras) though we do have a few " singers" (magpies).